Utilitys Traditional Geocache
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This is my first placed cache, so I've tried to make it informative with a touch of history and reasonably easy to find.
From the 1850s to the late 1870s Kandarilla/Park 3, Kangattilla/Park 4 and Ngampa Yerta/Park 5 were used for grazing, fire wood collection, and agistment. They were fenced in white-painted timber post and wire in the late 1860s, and by this time most of the indigenous vegetation had been effectively removed from all 3 parks.
Reticulated water flowed into North Adelaide in 1859 with the completion of construction works for the Thorndon Park Reservoir. A water gravitation point was established in Kangattilla/Park 4 to service this role. The first semi-underground reservoir was built in the late 1870s in Kangattilla/Park 4 adjacent to Barton Terrace West. It has a capacity of a million gallons (378,540 litres) and was constructed with dimensions of “104 ft square [9.66 m²], 19ft [5.79m] deep, with 8ft 3 inches [2.53m] of it above ground”. It had a roof built over brick columns with arches rendered with lime concrete. Its location was prone to flooding due to ponding of surface and stormwater water in Kangattilla/Park 4. This flooding was particularly evident in times of high rains as evidenced in the 1856 flood, where a forty acre (16.2ha) area lake formed which could only be dispersed by the building of drains.
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Gur jngre vf ybpngrq orybj tebhaq yriry hayvxr gur pnpur, juvpu fubhyq fheivir nabgure 1856 sybbq.